{"id":329,"date":"2010-03-07T17:13:54","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T00:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.squealingrat.org\/word\/?p=329"},"modified":"2010-03-08T04:35:54","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T11:35:54","slug":"twit-prank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.squealingrat.org\/backupify\/2010\/03\/twit-prank\/","title":{"rendered":"TWiT Prank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, March 7th, during the live taping of <a href=\"http:\/\/twit.tv\">TWiT<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twit.tv\/238\">episode 238<\/a>, Leo Laporte pranked one Twitter account by sending everyone to a random account, @<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/lisatickledpink\">LisaTickledPink<\/a> and following her. Within 20 minutes, she received more than 2,000 followers.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Rose chose the random Twitter account by searching for &#8220;i hate technology&#8221;. Afterwards, Leo realized that she might have setup email alerts for every new follower and her email account was going to get loaded. He then promised the New Zealand resident a free iPad.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;prank&#8221; was inspired by Conan O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ConanOBrien\/status\/10041591698\"> joke<\/a>. Laporte also promised a random follower of Lisa a free iPad.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The writer of this post compiles the <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outbound\/article\/squealingrat.org');\" href=\"http:\/\/squealingrat.org\/world\/Landing_Page.html\">latest tech news and more at Squealing Rat<\/a>, and writes about <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outbound\/article\/www.loneiguana.org');\" href=\"http:\/\/www.loneiguana.org\/\">tricks and tips of deception, trickery and survival at Lone Iguana<\/a>. Find <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outbound\/article\/twitter.com');\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/squealingrat\">him on Twitter<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This article has been <a href=\"http:\/\/zenhabits.net\/2008\/01\/open-source-blogging-feel-free-to-steal-my-content\/\">un-copyrighted<\/a>. You are free to use portions of this article, and while it is not necessary, please credit us.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, March 7th, during the live taping of TWiT, episode 238, Leo Laporte pranked one Twitter account by sending everyone to a random account, @LisaTickledPink and following her. Within 20 minutes, she received more than 2,000 followers. Kevin Rose &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.squealingrat.org\/backupify\/2010\/03\/twit-prank\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[60,59,58,15],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-squeaks","tag-joke","tag-prank","tag-twit","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squealingrat.org\/backupify\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squealingrat.org\/backupify\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squealingrat.org\/backupify\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealingrat.org\/backupify\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealingrat.org\/backupify\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealingrat.org\/backupify\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squealingrat.org\/backupify\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealingrat.org\/backupify\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealingrat.org\/backupify\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->